Maps For A War Tourist is an live-film and live-audio essay created to follow the rhythms and pace of a tortoise. Research and document-based, it is dedicated to, and follows the story of, a young turkish woman named Ayse Deniz Karacagil, who became an icon of the resistance, political prisoner, armed militant, and finally martyr fighting in Syria. In parallel to Deniz's story, Maps considers myths, legends and movements connected to the tortoise: from the death of Aeschylus via falling tortoise, to the Czech anti-fascist underground in the Second World War, who called for a resistance based on slowing down, and used the image of the tortoise as their symbol.

Hand drawn maps showing routes taken from Turkey to the PKK women's base in Qandil, Iraq